Roy Moore

Roy Moore (11 February 1947-) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (R) from 15 January 2001 to 13 November 2003, succeeding Perry O. Hooper Sr. and preceding Gorman Houston, and again from 15 January 2013 to 26 April 2017, succeeding Chuck Malone and preceding Lyn Stuart.

Biography
Roy Moore was born in Gadsden, Alabama on 11 February 1947, the oldest of five children. He graduated from West Point in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and he served as a Captain in the US Army's 504th Military Police Battalion in the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1974. He became a lawyer in Gadsden, and he became Assistant District Attorney for Etowah County in 1977, serving until 1982. During the late 1970s, he was involved in the sexual abuse of teenage girls, and these abuses continued into the 1990s. In 1992, he switched his party affiliation from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, and he served as Judge for the Sixteenth Circuit Court of Alabama from 1992 to 2000. From 2001 to 2003 and from 2013 to 2017, he also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Moore became known as a conspiracy theorist and an advocate of far-right politics; he was strongly anti-homosexual and anti-Muslim, believed that Christianity should order public policy, and had ties to white nationalist and neo-Confederate groups. He also claimed that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, paid himself and his family $1,000,000 through a charity, and he attempted to order the state government to continue the ban on same-sex marriage even after it was deemed unconstitutional, leading to his suspension in May 2016. In 2017, however, he received the Republican nomination for Senator from Alabama, running against Democratic Party challenger Doug Jones, with most Republicans in the state supporting him even after the allegations were publicized; some called for voters to elect a write-in candidate such as the outgoing acting Senator Luther Strange.